Christopher C. Walton, principal of Walton Law APC, has been selected to the 2014 Southern California Super Lawyers list. No more than five percent of the lawyers in California are selected by Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Walton concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury and nursing home abuse/neglect. In addition to his advocacy on behalf of elderly and personal injury victims, Walton is actively involved in the San Diego legal community. In 2011 and 2012, Walton was elected by his peers to serve as co-chair of the Elder Law Section of the San Diego County Bar Association. He is also active in the North County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, Consumer Attorneys of California and the American Inns of Court, Honorable William B. Enright Chapter.
Walton was also named a Top Attorney by the San Diego Daily Transcript in 2013.

Fish & Richardson is pleased to announce that Kevin Kantharia has received the 2013 American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Robert C. Watson Award for his paper “The Shrinking and Unpredictable Law of Willful Patent Infringement: Why the Federal Circuit Should Revisit En Banc the Issues in Bard Peripheral Vascular.”
This annual competition is designed to encourage interest in intellectual property issues and give law students further experience with the concepts and realities of a career in intellectual property law. Students are encouraged to submit articles on a subject related to the protection of intellectual property and judges consider the merit of the article as a contribution to the knowledge of intellectual property and the extent to which it displays original and creative thought.
Kantharia wrote the article during his third year in law school at the University of San Diego Law School, where he earned his law degree. He joined Fish after graduation and was admitted to the California bar in December 2013. Kantharia was previously a participant in Fish’s Diversity Fellowship program in 2011 and worked as a summer associate for the firm while attending law school.

Fisher & Phillips LLP is pleased to announce that Brooke Tabshouri, an associate in the San Diego office, has been selected for inclusion in San Diego Daily Transcript’s Young Attorneys 2013. The annual list is determined by a peer voting process and identifies the top young attorneys in the San Diego legal community.
Tabshouri focuses her practice on representing employers and management in a variety of aspects of labor and employment law. These capacities include wrongful termination litigation, wage and hour violations, collective and class action disputes, and employment discrimination and harassment.
Prior to joining Fisher & Phillips LLP in April 2012, Tabshouri held a position as a post-graduate research attorney for Hon. Richard D. Huffman of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One, in San Diego, Calif.

Gayle M. Blatt, a partner with San Diego-based CaseyGerry and head of its pharmaceutical and medical device practice group, has been appointed by U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia to serve as co-liaison counsel for the growing number of incretin mimetic products liability cases in multidistrict litigation (MDL 2452) now pending in the Southern District of California.
As co-liaison counsel in the multidistrict litigation, Blatt will be responsible for facilitating communications between the respective parties in the MDL and the court overseeing the litigation. Currently, there are over 150 cases pending in the MDL involving incretin mimetic drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes — Byetta, Januvia, Janumet and Victoza — and new cases are being filed at a rate of between 20 and 40 per month.
The incretin-based therapies products liability litigation MDL alleges that use of the drugs can cause pancreatic cancer. In August of this year, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally filed suits involving the diabetes drugs to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Gomez Iagmin Trial Attorney Parisima Roshanzamir has been named the Regional Captain for San Diego of the Consumer Attorneys of California New Lawyers Division (NLD).
The purpose of NLD is to stimulate the interest and commitment of New Lawyers in the objectives of CAOC, generate new members for CAOC, provide public services focusing on the preservation of the civil justice system, Trial By Jury and other civic-oriented projects, develop statewide professional relationships and assist members of CAOC in the early stages of their careers by ensuring that all CAOC components give appropriate attention to the needs of New Lawyers.
Parisima’s goal for the year is to encourage San Diego’s new attorneys to connect, network, and build a stronger community. A unified trial bar grows and stands the test of time to fight for justice through the new lawyers of its next generation. The San Diego chapter of NLD, under Parisima’s guidance, plan to meet once a month, beginning on January 30 at Gomez Iagmin

Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP (HechtSolberg) has once again been recognized as one of the top law firms specializing in real estate with a Tier I San Diego ranking in the annual U.S. News — Best Lawyers® ranking of Best Lawyers (2014). The firm, which is based in San Diego and serves developers, investors, businesses and entrepreneurs throughout California, is rated among the year’s “Best Law Firms” after a rigorous evaluation process that included client and peer feedback. “We are a relationship-based firm where the success of our clients is our paramount focus,” said Mickey Maher, managing partner with HechtSolberg. “This drives our business philosophy of providing high value, practical business and real
estate advice with excellent service to every client, every time. We are very pleased to be honored among the industry’s best in this prestigious ranking.”
To be eligible to participate in the U.S. News — Best Lawyers ® review process, each law firm must have at least one attorney who has received high enough peer-review to be listed in the current edition of Best Lawyers. HechtSolberg has four attorneys who achieved this recognition: Paul Robinson, David Bagley, Darryl Solberg and Susan Daly.

Hickman & Robinson LLP is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Sasha Kamfiroozie as a partner of the firm. Kamfiroozie will join the Estate Planning and Probate Practice Group at Hickman & Robinson.
Kamfiroozie was previously founder and principal of the Kam Law Firm. Her primary areas of practice are Estate Planning and Probate, focusing on Family Estates, High Net Worth Estates, Special Needs Planning, Probate, Conservatorships, and Small Business Planning. Kamfiroozie is a member of the Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law Section of the San Diego County Bar Association, co-chair of the San Diego Lawyers Club Mentorship Committee, and co-chair of the California Western School of Law Alumni Board Continuing Education Committee. She volunteers with Legal Aid Society of San Diego. She was also nominated for the San Diego Daily Transcript’s Outstanding 2013 Young Attorneys.

Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith, LLP is pleased to announce that it has added Amanda L. Harris as partner and Angela A. Woolard as an associate to the firm’s family law practice.
Harris is certified as a Family Law Specialist by the State Bar of California. Her practice focuses exclusively on family law matters with an emphasis on complex, high net-worth marital dissolutions.Prior to joining Solomon Ward, Harris was a partner at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek where she represented executives of Fortune 500 companies, business owners, professional athletes, and celebrities and their spouses in complex marital dissolutions involving division of business interests, spousal support, child support and child custody matters.
Woolard joins Solomon Ward as an associate. Her practice also focuses exclusively on family law matters, including assistance with dissolution of marriage proceedings and family law appeals, as well as the preparation and negotiation of prenuptial and marital settlement agreements. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, where she assisted clients with dissolution of marriage proceedings, including temporary and permanent child and spousal support orders, child custody and visitation and division of property.